Restrepo Blog Assignment

When the soldiers got into firefights over and over again and just hearing and see the hsots fired realy made me realize how terrifing it is to be in a war. This relates back to when Perry expressed hatred and fear for going on patrol. I realized how boring things are when you're not under fire or out patroling. This relates to all of the complaining in the beginning of the book before they got into any real action. When the soldiers in restrepo killed possibly innocent citizens in order to rid the land of the terrorists it related back to when Perry and comapny shot and allie from charlie company. When the soldiers talked about not wanting to sleep because of the horrible nightmares they had it made the visions that some of the soldiers in Fallen Angels seem more real. When one of the soldiers in restrepo dies on the battle field and most of them break into tears it showed me how close the soldiers were and how truly sad it is to see your fellow comrade and friend die by the enemy. While watching restrepo they made several call ins for hellies and jet airstrikes. This made me realize how important those things are to a war. In restrepo they need them for navigation and airstrikes while in Fallen Angels they needed them to save their skins from the enemy and the harsh jungle. In restrepo the soldiers really showed love for each other. They were like brothers. This helped me understand and see how close Perry and his campany were and how they'd rather stick together and go on more patrols then split up and have less of them. In restrepo the soldiers deminstrate how a firefight isn't something planned but something that you almost go with the flow, for lack of a better phrase. There was no real leader in the firefight, they all worked together to get themselves out of danger and to safety. This is similar to fallen angels in how someone would lead, then they would get into a firefight and then they would all work together to get out of there.In restrepo the soldiers talked about how they were affecting the civilens lives and how they could make it up to them (the cow incident). In fallen angels they talked about how they shot and killed civilens when on patrol.In restrepo a man wrote home and told his family how everything was going well and didn't even mention Restrepo's death. This is much like Fallen Angels in the fact that they decided to lie to their friends and family in order to protect them and the military from lack of volunteers.